I think it has multi levels. It can get air play because it seems to be about a loveable jazz musician who is homeless and the song has the popular "redneck" qualities that were popular with great music swelling. But I think it is about cocaine... because there is "though the looking glass" references ("Oh it must be hard for the likes of you to get by In a world that you just can't see through" ie mirror also "How does it feel that you cannot go home" which is also sort of a Dorothy reference) and when do cocaine you separate it with a razor! So when you look down in a mirror you have a razor face. Cocaine according to the song is the best thing apparently to an aging star because it gives you the ability to get up and get out. It makes you feel wonderful but when you get off you feel like Sh-t! Also the amazing grace thing is like he goes from being down in the dumps unable to walk to being like perhaps hit by 'god' like those :healers" changing a man who cannot walk to a man that can walk. He just needs a little snort and he is good. So then he needs to drink it off alla Elderberry wine when the high ends.I always thought it was about an aging homosexual man who was a star not just because of Elton john's lifestyle choices. But I have to say "he needs a young man to walk him around" and "You cannot go home"is probably what makes people think that...It could or could not mean that the aging star is homosexual. And If you ever kissed a man who has not shaved in a while it is like being kissed with small razors... He is hanging on by having young men around him but I do not think it is necesarrily about the act. In fact the song gives the idea that if it is about an aging homosexual man that he is not having sex and has young people around him because he has drugs and alcohol. He is saying that cocaine is his lover that protects him from realities and keeps him safe. But when the cocaine wears off he does not know why he loves cocaine because he is in hell and his realities flood back in...Constantly between two worlds like Alice where he is either too high or too low. He is between different parts of the looking glass...A lot of his songs appear to be about over indulging in booze and drugs...
I think it has multi levels. It can get air play because it seems to be about a loveable jazz musician who is homeless and the song has the popular "redneck" qualities that were popular with great music swelling. But I think it is about cocaine... because there is "though the looking glass" references ("Oh it must be hard for the likes of you to get by In a world that you just can't see through" ie mirror also "How does it feel that you cannot go home" which is also sort of a Dorothy reference) and when do cocaine you separate it with a razor! So when you look down in a mirror you have a razor face. Cocaine according to the song is the best thing apparently to an aging star because it gives you the ability to get up and get out. It makes you feel wonderful but when you get off you feel like Sh-t! Also the amazing grace thing is like he goes from being down in the dumps unable to walk to being like perhaps hit by 'god' like those :healers" changing a man who cannot walk to a man that can walk. He just needs a little snort and he is good. So then he needs to drink it off alla Elderberry wine when the high ends.I always thought it was about an aging homosexual man who was a star not just because of Elton john's lifestyle choices. But I have to say "he needs a young man to walk him around" and "You cannot go home"is probably what makes people think that...It could or could not mean that the aging star is homosexual. And If you ever kissed a man who has not shaved in a while it is like being kissed with small razors... He is hanging on by having young men around him but I do not think it is necesarrily about the act. In fact the song gives the idea that if it is about an aging homosexual man that he is not having sex and has young people around him because he has drugs and alcohol. He is saying that cocaine is his lover that protects him from realities and keeps him safe. But when the cocaine wears off he does not know why he loves cocaine because he is in hell and his realities flood back in...Constantly between two worlds like Alice where he is either too high or too low. He is between different parts of the looking glass...A lot of his songs appear to be about over indulging in booze and drugs...
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